12.04.02
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons
"'One reads about the world's desire for American leadership only in the United States,' a British diplomat has remarked. 'Everywhere else one reads about American arrogance and unilateralism.'" Kenneth N. Waltz
"When I was coming up, it was a dangerous world and we knew exactly who the they were. It was us versus them and it was clear who them was. Today, we're not so sure who the they are, but we know they're there." George W. Bush
Also this:
No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be;
Am an attendant lord, one that will do
To swell a progress, start a scene or two,
Advise the prince; no doubt, an easy tool,
Deferential, glad to be of use,
Politic, cautious and meticulous;
Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse;
At times, indeed, almost ridiculous --
Almost, at times, the Fool."
T.S. Eliot from "The Love Song of Alfred J. Prufrock"
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